Statutory Rules

1976 No. 295

REGULATIONS UNDER THE TRADE COMMISSIONERS ACT 1933.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Trade Commissioners Act 1933.

Dated this twenty-third day of December, 1976.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN HOWARD

Minister of State for Business and Consumer Affairs

for and on behalf of the Minister for Overseas Trade

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Amendments of the Trade Commissioners Regulations†

1. After regulation 26 of the Trade Commissioners Regulations the following regulation is added:—

Allowances for excess education costs.

“ 27. (1) A Commissioner shall be entitled to be paid, by way of allowances in respect of the education, while stationed at a post after 31 December 1973, of his children in the country where that post is, such amounts as would be payable to him by way of reimbursement of excess education costs incurred in that country if he were an officer of the Australian Public Service engaged in overseas service on long-term posting.

“ (2) Payments under sub-regulation (1) to a Commissioner shall be subject to the same conditions that would be applicable if he were an officer of the Australian Public Service engaged in overseas service on long-term posting.

“ (3) Any function that in relation to an entitlement of an officer of the Australian Public Service, referred to in sub-regulation (1), may be performed by the Public Service Board may, in relation to an entitlement given by that sub-regulation, be performed by the Minister.”.

Schedule.

2. The Schedule to the Trade Commissioners Regulations is amended by omitting the heading “ SCHEDULE 15 ” and all words and figures between that heading and the heading “ SCHEDULE 19 ”.

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 30 December 1976.

† Statutory Rules 1958, No. 52, as amended by Statutory Rules 1958, No. 74; 1959, No. 92; 1960, No. 45; 1961, Nos. 37 and 38; 1962, Nos. 43 and 80; 1964, No. 116; 1966, No. 19; 1967, No. 55; 1969, No. 89; 1971, No. 36; 1973, Nos. 52, 85 and 136; 1974, Nos. 118, 132, 133, 163, 194 and 209; 1975, Nos. 25, 76, 104, 155 and 216; and 1976, Nos. 76, 93, 132, 134, 171, 172, 199, 246, 270, 271 and 272.